Cigarette and match holder



Oct. 26 1926.

A. H. MOE

CIGARETTE AND MATCH HOLDER Filed Match 19, 192s a 7 ,If

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BATN FFQFL ALBERT H. MOVE, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

CIGARETTE AND MATCH. HOLDER.

Application filed March 19, 1926. Serial No. 95,867.

'elates to an improved combination holder 'for cigarrettes and matches and the object is to provide a simple, in-

expensive, highly eiiicient and convenient n device in which cigarettes may be kept in their original packages or held loosely within the device and also a match-box holder,

the device being and mat so arranged that cigarettes ches are available simultaneously.

These and other objects will be brought forth in the following illustrated in the accompanying which;

Fig. 1 is a top Fig. 2 is a ront view its lid opened to specification and as fully drawing in view oi my device.

ot my device with expose the cigarettes in its upper compartment and a match-box in the lower compartment, the

drawer ot the match-box partly out.

Fig. 3 is a lett hand edge view ot' Fig. 2.

Fig. i is a bottom view of the device. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of the holder about as on line 5-5 in Fig. 3.

Fig. G is a sectional elevation through the match-box comp (3-6 in Fig. 5.

artment about as on line Fig. 7 is a modilication of Fig. 5 and showing a package et cigarettes and a matchbox in their respective compartments.

Referring to the drawing by reference numerals. my holding device comprises a preferably sheet quadrangular metal box 10 ot elongated form7 with a suitable hinged lid 11 for closing the larger compartment 12 of two compartments 12-13. The device is preferably of elongated Hat shape similar to a tobacco can and ott a size to receive and retain an entire package ot cigarettes 14 in the larger compartment in such a manner that when. the wrapper such package is ot the upper end of torn away the ends of the cigarettes project above the top edge ci the box and are readily accessible when the lid 1 is turned up as in l necessarily deep Fig. 2. The lid 11 is enough to protect but not contact with the cigarettes. when closed. and

may be retained in closed position by any suitable means such as a projection 15 of the metal in the front upper part of the box and irictionally engaged by a corresponding deiitation 16 on the cover.

For convenience oi description will designate the front left edges of the container 10, as A,

D respectively.

The compartin wall, rear wall, right and B, C and ent 12 may have a solid bottom as 17 in Fig. 7 for supporting the tom end oro a cigarette package, or cigarettes may in this instance be placed loosely and upright in the compartment. 18 are iii-wardlydirected spring arms or integral parts of the edge walls D and C, one extending downwardly 'from the top edge of each said walls angular-ly toward the center oi the compartment. These arms serve as retaining ineans 'tor a package of cigarettes slipped downwardly into the compartment, as 1st 'in Fig. 7. Below the partition 17 the box edge C has an opening 19 through which an entire match-box 20 oi the usual small size may be slipped into compartment 13 until its inner end stops against wall D. in Figs. 2, 6 and 7 the said match-box is shown with the usual shell 2OA and drawer 20B. This shell 2OA is 'frictionally retained in the compartment 13 by a iiat spring arm 21 preferably consisting of a continuation oi' rear wall B bent back at B and extending inwardly toward wall D and upwardly toward wall A. A match-box 2O inserted as in Fig. 6 will ot course be irictionally retained between said arm 21 and wall A.. 22 (Figs. 3 and 7) is an aperture in the lower part of wall D and large enough for the user of the device to insert a finger7 as 23 in Fig. 7, to push one end ot the match-box drawer and torce the latter out as tar as desired from wall C to provide easy access to the matches 24;.

In Figs. 5 and 6 the upper edge et spring arm 21 is -formed with horizontal, alternating projections or lips 21L in a common plane and being located below the free ends of the arms 18 serve as the supporting element for the bottom of the cigarette package. In this type of holder the solid bottom 17 is omitted. ln Fig. 6 the bottom end ot the cigarette package 14*v is indicated dotted.

The lower end of my device may be made in very light construction with the metal simply bent under to form the quadrangir larly arranged ledges 25 (see Fig. 4).

The use of my device is already clearly revealed. It is obvious that the arms 18 and 21 may readily be cut from the same blank oit sheet metal as the box itself. These arms may also be ot spring material suitably fixed in the box but these and other expedients lfall within the intended scope and spirit of the invention.

botv l. A cigarette and match-box .holder Cornprising anl elongated, opmdrangular,` tubular body, a hinged lid adapted to oloseone end, said body having two compartments, one for Cigarettes and the like and accessible when the lid is opened, a smaller compartment at the opposite end of the holder, the latter having an opening in its edge l'or insertion of a match-box and a smaller opening in the edge opposite from the one in which a match-box is inserted, and means Within both compartments for frietionally retaining a package in the larger oompartmentl and a match-box in the smaller coinpartment, said retaining means consistingof' a number of spring arms in ea'oll Compartment, eali of said arms extending normalk ly from the' vicinity of the opening ol' its compartment and angularly int-o the coni- -partinent- 2. The structure specified in claim l,y in which said spring arm in the smaller coin partment comprises a Hat spring with one edge arrangedtransversely and nearly cross the interior of the holder and said edge having' integral ledges arranged in a common plane at right angles to the plane of *lie spring to serve as a supporting elemen for the bottom of a package inserted in the larger compartment.

ln testimony WhereofI alimix my signature.

ALBERT lH. MOE. 

